Free floating ventricular shunt catheter between lateral ventricles: an unusual ventriculoperitoneal shunt complication, report of case
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Free floating ventricular shunt catheter between lateral ventricles: a case report of an unusual ventriculoperitoneal shunt complication.
Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt proximal tip disconnection is rarely seen as a shunt complication. Shunt dysfunction and hydrocephaly can develop due to this disconnection. Presented here is a case of a disconnection of the ventricular catheter from the shunt valve, which passed between both lateral ventricles by free floating in the brain CT. The patient was operated on for hydrocephaly. The d...
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عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Neurosurgery
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1019-5149
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.jtn.6351-12.2